Chapter 6:

1.6: Screw it, the adventure begins...

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“Grim?”

“……..”

“Hey, Grim.”

“……………...what?”

“Wanna practice flying to Great Hiana and back with our new runic stones?”

“SHUT UP!”

Yep, we got scammed. And Ed’s using the situation to make fun of me. Now I know why he didn’t have any friends before we met.

“You accepted the deal with me at the same time, so if anything, we’re both idiots.”

“?” Ed looked at me with a confused frown, “…who said I wasn’t an idiot, I just wanted to tell you that you’re one as well.”

Yep, definitely no friends.

“Either way, what do we do now? We’ve no money, no rations, and no handbook.”

“Wait? What happened to the handbook?”

“I uhhh…forgot to take it out of the snair before we sold it.”

A defeated look enveloped my face, I truly felt like the biggest idiot in the world at that moment.

“Hmmm, then we have no choice.”

“Oh?”

Ed’s got that look on his face. The face that says “hold up, I’ve got a great idea incoming!”

“Let’s just wing it.”

“…”

Well, that’s certainly new. I didn’t expect this from him of all people.

“Wing it? Like with zero items in our disposal safe from a few tools?”

“Yeah. I mean, screw it, we can’t go any lower from here, am I right?”

True, we have sunk low, so I guess just going is gonna be the best thing to do now.

After this interesting plan that Ed proposed, we hopped on to a transport wagon that was heading out to the capital of Secundis, Stringwood. With this, our journey officially began.

***

In Stringwood, you immediately notice the differences from the village in which we’ve spent our lives in. The roads are paved, and they even have sidewalks! No livestock in sight! All the people are dressed so formally, it’s as if everyone is a lord!

As we were gawking at the novelties of Secundis’ capital, we had wondered what to do from now on.

“We should get some money.” I offered some starting input, to which Ed replied:

“Yeah, but how? Should we ask for a job? I’m sure the pay is high judging by the people’s clothes.”

“That’s the thing, though, our clothes are dragging us down.” I answered, “no one wants to hire some kids with raggedy ol’ clothes.”

This was the truth no matter how you look at it, people don’t wanna employ country bumpkins. So we need another plan.

“Let’s see…”

“Hmmm…”

“OH! I GOT IT!” I suddenly shouted, surprising both Ed and the nearby civilians.

“When Schnell started off, he too had little to no funds! So to rectify the issue, he went to the Kingdom of Carmen and requested a loan from The King!”

“Yeah, but that happened around the middle of the book, not at the start,” Ed refuted calmly, “and he wasn’t buck poor like we are, he had enough money to sustain himself.”

He did have a point, but there really isn’t any other choice but to starve on the streets.

As such, we had set our course to the Kingdom of Carmen and went to sleep on a nearby bench.

It’s been a long first day…